Healing a Wounded World: Economics, Ecology, and Health for a Sustainable Life

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This scientifically rigorous and philosophically sophisticated defense of environmentalism is meant to excite, educate, and alarm the reader. There is a widespread scientific and public recognition that the world is facing an environmental crisis of vast proportions. What is the relationship between the growth of human population and industrial activity on one hand and the environmental crisis on the other If this is not determined and dealt with, Earth's ecology may be expected to collapse.

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In North America, we have the tendency to look at the world from a strictly American point of view. In this book, we see how others view the world. I recommend this book to everyone for study and possible action.-Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
The answers may not be comforting, and one may disagree, but the arguments are well made.-Population and Environment
"The answers may not be comforting, and one may disagree, but the arguments are well made."-Population and Environment
"In North America, we have the tendency to look at the world from a strictly American point of view. In this book, we see how others view the world. I recommend this book to everyone for study and possible action."-Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith

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JOSEPH WAYNE SMITH is Senior Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Dr. Smith is a widely published author on the subject of the future of the earth. GRAHAM LYONS is a leading Adelaide businessman, cattle rancher, and environmentalist. GARY SAUER-THOMPSON is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at The Flinders University of South Australia.